identify as in botany or biology, for example - key out
make conspicuous or noteworthy
be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait
sometimes in a very positive sense "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers"
detect with the senses "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards" "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" - pick out- make out- tell apart
mark as different "We distinguish several kinds of maple" - secernate- severalize- severalise- tell apart